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Translation of hard-luck story in Spanish:

hard-luck story

Pronunciation ///hɑrd lək ˈstɔri/

noun

he came to me with another hard-luck story—me vino otra vez con el cuento de sus penurias

Having come this far, we obviously want to win the championship and not have a hard-luck story.

As a freelance reporter I stole other people's hard-luck stories and wrote about them.

Better accept from the outset that you are an affluent alien, a conspicuous consumer, and everybody wants to sell you something, if only a hard-luck story.

Mr Lehaney, 62, said she let Milroy-Sloan stay overnight after she told him a hard-luck story about her family.

Isn't it just the twenty-first century equivalent of standing on a web-corner telling a hard-luck story and holding out a paper cup?

Certain episodes are undeniably shocking, but beautifully poetic prose quickly proves this girl's plight is far more than a hard-hitting hard-luck story.

And it might have been another of those hard-luck stories if Gus Poyet's cleverly-lobbed pass had not run away from Robbie Keane and into the safe hands of Jussi Jaaskelainen with just seven minutes left on the clock!

For many this would seem to be the case, but aren't the reasons we give the usual football hard-luck stories: bad refereeing decisions; freak goals; injuries to crucial players?

What I believe, and what I've said before, and will continue to say to would-be novelists who email me their hard-luck stories of rejection and ill-treatment: good books find a home in the world.

His time with Wexford was ‘littered with hard-luck stories,’ comparing the experience to the like of Kildare and Mayo footballers.

Debbie Stabenow, a first-termer from Michigan specializing in relating hard-luck stories of senior citizens, supplanted Baucus as lead Democrat on the issue.

The hard-luck story is the one everyone at Motherwell seems to be sticking to.

Even Ronald Reagan, whose public policies were every bit as mean spirited as those of Bush, was, according to Tip O'Neill in his book Man of the House, capable of responding compassionately when faced with an individual hard-luck story.

Kobe's guilt or innocence notwithstanding, the legal battle he finds himself in will be just another chapter of the hard-luck story that is Kobe Bryant's life.